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It seems reasonable to claim (and seems to be backed up by authorities on the issue) that most genuine sex trafficking originates from two sources: 1) visa fraud and/or human smuggling across the border and 2) domestically, broken homes. Trying to fix either of these root causes requires stepping on some political landmines.

The internet, even "big tech" platforms with 1000 different ML algorithms for downranking and banning things, is just a different medium than broadcast media altogether, so there's bound to be tension between tech companies and broadcast media, even ignoring the whole ad money thing. There's so much going on at the same time and there's just no presumption that any particular piece of content is authoritative or popular like there is on TV or in a newspaper.

To put it another way, it seems like it's not just about the difference between the framing of the "big story" on the NBC evening news and on TruthS33k3r_42's channel; it seems more about the difference between having or caring about a single story at all, and perhaps just chatting on Discord/forums/Twitter/Messenger about something completely separate.

For those unfamiliar with this situation: Pleroma is an ActivityPub server and frontend written in Elixir and designed for low resource consumption, somewhat of an alterative to Mastodon. One or two of the most prominent early Pleroma instances had very sparse moderation policies, leading some to associate Pleroma with trolls and far-right users. Today, most Pleroma instances prohibit hate speech, harassment, and so on. Of course, anyone is free to make their own Pleroma or Mastodon instance with whatever rules and federation policies they like, and the most "chud-filled" instance in the entire fediverse (Gab) is running a Mastodon fork, not Pleroma.

Speaking of building regulations and solar, I stayed in a house that was completely powered by solar and wired with DC for lights and electronics. You can't just add an AC outlet in the kitchen for a coffee grinder, though. If you have even one AC outlet, you have to wire the entire house to code -- useless and unused AC outlets every few feet along the hallways, AC outlet in the bathroom even though the inverter can't handle most of the things (e.g. hair dryers) that would be plugged in in a bathroom.

This completely defies logic, considering that 2 kids is replacement level fertility, the world has experienced generally consistent population growth, and most of the labor ever done in the world has been low-skilled labor.

Cliqz plans to make money by, in the future, "deliver[ing] sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history...processed locally based on a remote repository of offers, with no personally identifiable data sent to remote servers"

This is the reason they're pushing their browser and their extension. Privacy wise, this method sounds OK if they really don't send the data (or what ads you see personally) out. I don't mind seeing ads if they are somewhat relevant, non-obtrusive, and not stalking me across the internet.

My first impression about Cliqz search is that it is somewhat viable, but the index is pretty shallow. There are actually a few other search engines with their own index not mentioned by the article (Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu):

* Mojeek. Sometimes really good for obscure sites when you want to "grep the internet" but seems very vulnerable to blogspam and other SEO. Maybe I just haven't figured out how to query this one yet.

* Yippy. Pretty decent index. Cool feature: categorizes search results with a tree on the side, so if you search for "cobbler" you can just remove the pie or shoe results depending on what you're looking for.

* Gigablast / private.sh: private.sh is the new Gigablast proxy run by PIA. Shallow index as well, haven't used it as much.

The search engine market will be up for grabs if Google keeps getting worse at the same pace.

People are cheering it on because there are no viable openly licensed ISAs besides RISC-V and the alternative to this move is RISC-V being crippled due to sanctions. Anybody in the US is just as free to use the ISA, and designs and fab IP can still be proprietary in whatever country.

Perhaps it's necessary but not sufficient: if you have zero lawyers, press, or government officials on your side, marching is a great way to get thrown in jail for "rioting" and have your reputation destroyed.

The state is the entity that signed all the free trade treaties in the first place — that enabled the outsourcing and let the production be moved out of the country — and still has the power to set tariffs and industrial policy. So the author's argument is that the only way to fix these problems is through state power.

>"Indeed the conspicuous embrace of 'elite values' by journalists and academics is often little more than an aspi­rational attempt to remain connected to an economically distant elite...they gave professionals greater scope to manage “postmaterial' concerns that suited their cultural sensibilities..."

In other words, this potential class war is pacified by telling the upper-middle class that they are culturally superior in spite of their increasing economic precarity. Someone in this class who has to take out massive loans, move across the country, and spend $30,000 a year on rent with no hope of ever owning a home in order to have an insecure job in their field must be assured that living this way, combined with a mix of vague cultural markers, is tasteful and elite, and not an empty bag. There may also be a variety of well-funded social movements that pose zero threat to the economic position of the 0.1% to participate in as an activist.

One could consider Americans poisoned by something, considering that 40% of the American population is obese (not just overweight) and sperm count has declined 50% in developed countries over the past few decades.

I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0.1%. I wish he had gone into detail on why he thinks the upper-middle class is required to effect political change. Is it because they have just enough capital? Or maybe they are closer to and more familiar with institutional power?

If it makes you feel any better, I'm over 6'1" and I still shouldn't have bothered creating an account.

It looks like Bing SFW search is only Youtube, same as DDG. Only video search site I've seen lately is Petey Vid which searches the expected Vimeo, Dailymotion, but also Instagram, Twitter, Peertube, and a bunch of random non-US video sites.